Snoopy basics

Just added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library are four newly shipping board books:

The illustrations are chosen well. The manufacture is a bit problematic; the pages sometimes come stuck together and hard to separate, which was made worse by one book which for some reason had a page about twice as thick as the others, so there I am trying to separate what was really a single board. So if you’re giving one of these to a kid, open up every page before you hand it over. (Or just get the Kindle editions, which are available and cheaper.)

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